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Can a machine paint like Jackson Pollock? A team out of Harvard says yes. The scientists combined artificial intelligence and physics to invent a 3D-printing technique that replicates the artist’s career-defining paint-flinging approach. Their ultimate goal, however, isn’t to design a Pollock driven by computer algorithms, but to print complex shapes more quickly.
“Pollock’s approach of throwing paint from a height meant that even if his hand was moving in a specific trajectory, the paint didn’t follow that trajectory because of the acceleration gained from gravity,”, a former postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and first author of the research paper, said in an interview. “A small motion could result in a large splatter of paint.
To replicate the dynamics of fluid coils, the Harvard researchers combined fluid simulations and deep reinforcement learning, which allows software to get better at performing a task by learning from its mistakes. They say their approach could be expanded to include more complex fluids, such as liquid polymers and pastes.
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